Tully FILMUS
1903–1998, Russia/USA
Biography
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Tully Filmus lived in Philadelphia, and he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. A scholarship in 1927 enabled him to spend two years in Europe, where he studied for a period with Andre Lhote in Paris. In New York, he shared a studio with Willem de Kooning in the early 1930\\\'s, and worked on Works Progress Administration projects in New York City in 1936. From 1937 to 1939 he taught at the American Artists School in New York and from 1938 to 1950 at the Cooper Union School of Art.
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